
Article by Steve Kaaru
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29 April, 2024
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South Africa is marching toward Vision 2025 payments digitalization, with the central bank identifying stablecoins and a retail CBDC as...
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After news outlets reported on the directive supposedly issued to multiple banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria denied it amid...
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Connecticut Senate passes AI bill curbing bias, deep fakes
The bill would punish anyone found guilty of using AI to create deceptive deep fakes and is supported by Microsoft...
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26 April, 2024
Nigeria launches first multilingual LLM trained in local languages
The new large language model will be trained in five low-resource languages and accented English to reflect Nigerians' diversity and...
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